China successfully completed tests of rocket motors for the third stage of the Martian rocket
China is striving with all its might to take a leading position in the exploration of both near-Earth space and other space bodies, starting from the Moon and Mars. For this, systematic tests of new rocket engines intended for a super-heavy launch vehicle are being carried out in the Celestial Empire.
And as the local edition of China Space News reported, just the other day, tests of the engine intended for the third stage were successfully completed. Thus, the first cycle of tests of the new generation rocket engines was completed directly for the first, second and third stages.
New engines for Chinese super-heavy launch vehicles
China is making leaps and bounds to land taikonauts on the moon, and if everything goes according to plan, then this event will happen in 2026. Initially, the Chinese plan to go to the satellite on Changzheng-5 launch vehicles, but for the subsequent implementation of ambitious tasks a new super-heavy rocket "Changzheng-9" (also known as the CZ-9 or Long March 9) is being created, which should take off already in 2028.
This will be the main super-heavy rocket that will be used to create a Russian-Chinese lunar base and the development of other objects in our solar system.
In order to launch the Changzheng-9 super-heavy rocket, the first stage will use oxygen-kerosene liquid engines YF-130 (with an additional afterburning cycle provided kerosene and oxygen.
The YF-130 propulsion system has already been partially assembled and even tested this spring. At the second stage of the rocket, it is planned to use the YF-90 hydrogen-oxygen engines. The prototype of this engine has already been assembled, and the full cycle of inspections should be completed by the end of the year.
And already for the third stage, the YF-79 hydrogen-oxygen engine, which was recently tested at 60% and 100% power, will be used. Engineers tested the operation of the combustion chamber.
According to the calculations of engineers, as soon as the Changzheng-9 rocket is fully ready, it will be able to launch a near-earth orbit of about 140 tons of payload, already to the moon it will be able to deliver 50 tons, and to Mars up to 44 tons.
As we can see, the Chinese space program is developing by leaps and bounds, and for some reason it is believed that they will succeed. Well, we will follow the further successes of the Chinese engineers.
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